Great Dictionary of Chinese (4-volume edition)

Author: Editorial Committee of the Great Chinese Dictionary
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Publishing Date: 2001-08-01
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The large-scale compilation of the Great Chinese Dictionary has undergone over a decade of, soaked with the hard work of more than 300 workers from Sichuan and Hubei provinces. It is one of the largest teams in Chinese history for compiling lexicographical works.
The fully annotated Great Chinese Dictionary includes over 56,000 Chinese characters. In terms of writing forms, each single-character entry, in addition to regular script, also lists several other forms such as oracle bone script, gold script, small seal script, and clerical script. In terms of pronunciation, it not only provides modern standard pronunciations but also marks ancient rhyme groups and Middle Chinese phonetic transcriptions. In terms of meaning, while focusing on common meanings, it also explains obscure meanings and the meanings of obscure characters, and appropriately includes the meanings of morphemes in compound words.
New Model The publication of this book has become an immortal milestone in the history of Chinese characters and dictionaries in China. It is comparable to the Kangxi Dictionary, shines alongside the Shuowen Jiezi, and shares glory with the Great Chinese Dictionary of China. It has become the model for dictionaries in the new century and the outstanding representative among similar lexicographical works.
The Great Chinese Dictionary is a large-scale specialized toolbook for Chinese characters, with a total of about 20 million words, including over 56,000 regular-script single characters. Virtually all Chinese characters appearing in ancient and modern documents, books, and reference materials can be found in it. It is the largest, most comprehensive, and most inclusive Chinese dictionary in the world today, compiled by more than 300 experts, scholars, and teachers from Sichuan and Hubei provinces over a decade of effort, with the purpose of explaining the form, sound, and meaning of Chinese characters.